Rick Rubio Art Humanities Professor John 2 October 2013 Cathedral of Saint John the Divine The Cathedral of Saint John the Divine is simply breathtaking. From the exterior to the interior of the cathedral‚ you can find plentiful amounts of highly sophisticated bodies of work. Before laying a foot inside‚ the massive bronze doors containing forty-eight relief panels depicting scenes from the Old and New Testament catches the eyes of many. Also‚ many note the exquisite statues and carvings of
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stained-glass images in Chartres Cathedral: the building wasn’t just built without a plan or the art didn’t just happen‚ it is a systematic creation using geometry (Crossley 232). Scholasticism is the main contributor to the use of geometry to organize how the Cathedral was built. Briefly described‚ scholasticism is taking events‚ concepts‚ or miracles‚ that we can’t understand‚ and organizing a structured argument to provide an explanation. In the Chartres Cathedral‚ the architecture and art not
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Edgar Allan Poe is incredibly famous for his dark themes of agony and death. In particular‚ The Raven‚ features a man slowly becoming mad after losing his love‚ Lenore. The speaker begins to speak to himself while sitting alone in his house. He hears a tapping outside the front door. He opens the door only to find no one there and blames the tapping on the wind against the windows. After opening the window‚ a raven flies in‚ and the speaker begins to talk to the crow. The crow only knows one
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from a wide range of organic polymers such as polyethylene‚ nylon‚ etc.‚ that can be molded into shape while soft‚ and then set into a rigid or slightly elastic form. “Plastic causes pollution‚ and it also causes harm to animals and marine life”(Bethany Wieman and Demand Media‚ 24 May 2014). Today the leading cause of pollution and harming people and animals are plastic bags. These days’ plastic bags are being used very often‚ in fact plastic bags are being used in people’s daily lives and that
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architectural and made the Cathedrals come alive with the glow of the colored glass
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aren’t they doing anything about this? Many people in Parma want to know the answer to the same questions. Cincinnati also has active gangs. "Graffiti is a creeping problem in every neighborhood and in and on public buildings" said Mayor Roxanne Qualls of Cincinnati said. Graffiti is so bad that Star Bank has donated $25‚000 to have students to help clean up all the graffiti.2 The city made a group called
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Qualls‚ Barbara English 3‚ M/W Prof. Shannon 9/9/13 Gaming Video games‚ what many see as a time consuming‚ a waste of time and money‚ can have a violent affect on the human mind. Now‚ video games can be fun and we all see that they can be shared with people of all ages. Any adventure game such as; "Mario"‚ to any first person shooter such as "Call of Duty" can all have a impact on anyone ’s lives if allowed. Video games can be used for family fun time or a party too. Many view gaming as a waste
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Paul ’s Cathedral during this time a natural disaster happened in London burning most of the City. His main focus is put into the Cathedral the appointment of Royal Surveyor to Charles III. The difficulty in restoring the Cathedral standing in Wren ’s way was the Clergy‚ which had to approve his designs‚ but Wren found a way around the Clergy ’s watchful eye. Wren had to come up with a new design for St. Paul ’s. He also had to do so for about 51 other churches in the area‚ but the cathedral was his
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a historical fiction novel by Ken Follett about the building of the cathedral in the fictional English town of Kingsbridge in the 12th century. One of the main characters is a Prior named Philip who goes from being the prior of a small cell in the woods to the prior of the cathedral being built. The book also follows the people of Kingsbridge and all of the conflicts and betrayals that come along with the building of the cathedral and town of Kingsbridge over the course of about 50 years. Early
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and involves the acceptance of the DOGMA of a religious community. The temple church well represents how this religious belief was carried by the crusaders. This will end our first day. On the second day‚ we will visit The Westminster cathedral. The cathedral is the
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